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The Drinking Song

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
And many miles be still to go
But under a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clouds go sailing by.

Notes

From chapter 4: A Short Cut to Mushrooms
This is sung by the hobbits as the rest on their way to Buckland.

Frodo propped his back against the tree-trunk, and closed his eyes. Sam and Pippin sat near, and they began to hum, and then to sing softly:

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  • Bobo the Girl
    March 24, 2006
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    This is like my absolute favorite drinking song! I love it! TOLKIEN RULES!!!!!

  • Capital
    October 3, 2005
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    ...that's telling them!

  • Capital
    October 3, 2005
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    Tolkien is just amazing! (and South African by birth) So many different styles and abilities -my hero!

  • bluuz girl
    October 2, 2005
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    Cool in an alcoholic sort of way

  • Heartbroken Hime
    October 2, 2005
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    I remember my friend writing this out for me...

  • Lonely
    October 2, 2005
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    Aeeeee... such a shwweet write.. tolkien rocks !

  • Zez
    October 2, 2005
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    reply to "Frodo"

    Hey, Ho! To the Bottle I Go

    source song

    featured in

    A Night at the Green Dragon

    (FOTR EE)

    (Not on the Soundtrack CD)

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    Music composed by Fran Walsh
    Words by J.R.R. Tolkien

    FOTR, Bk. 1, Ch. 4, A Short Cut to Mushrooms

    FOTR, Bk. 1, Bh 5, A Conspiracy Unmasked


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    This song is sung by Merry and Pippin as they stand on a table at the Green Dragon. Peter Jackson says in the FOTR EE Audio Commentary that Fran Walsh wrote the tune after playing with the lyrics a little.

    all the above copied from www.geocities.com/magpie930/SOURCE_SONGS/FOTR/SShey_ho_to_the_bottle_i_go.htm


    Edited on Oct 02, 7:31 because ''.


  • May 29, 2005
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    First of all i'am sorry for my orrible english...
    But i don't think that this poetry is been written by Tolkien...

  • Pierre Richards
    March 8, 2005
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    This is quite a surprise to find for me. I was aware of his reproductions of some older pieces in Saxon, and Anglo tongues, but was unaware of any poetry he did outside of those pieces.
    I used to have a book of his from 1955, Poems of AngloSaxon verses, where he had done the poems and then transcribed the more modern translations next to the verses.

  • suseann
    March 7, 2005
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    I get this picture of an old salt sundering with rum bottle in hand .Toward a grove of palm trees on a carribean white sand beach.To crash beneath them in slumber.Short and thrifty on the words.But what perfectly descritive words. Suseann

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